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End the Garage Sale at University of California GARY C. BYRNE and RICHARD B. McKENZIE, Gary C. Byrne is president of a Newport Beach investment firm. Richard B. McKenzie is a professor in the Graduate School of Management at UC Irvine and an adjunct fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business in St. Louis

Less Relief, More Risk for the Single Poor RUTH SCHWARTZ and VERA FLEISCHMAN, Ruth Schwartz is executive director of the nonprofit Shelter Partnership Inc., which supports providers of social services and housing for the homeless. Vera Fleischman is executive director of Skid Row Housing Trust, a nonprofit housing developer

Has Levi Strauss Sold Out in China? KARL SCHOENBERGER, Karl Schoenberger, a former Tokyo correspondent for The Times, is a teaching fellow at UC Berkeley's Graduate Journalism School. He is writing a book about human rights and the global marketplace